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Projects based on Regions

Africa
For more than 65 years the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers have responded to the pastoral needs of the faithful in several African countries.
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Asia
Celebrating a century of mission, the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers continue to share the Good News of the Gospel with families throughout Asia.
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Latin America
For nearly 60 years of service, the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers remain committed to live out our lives of participating in God’s mission and helping people throughout Latin America.
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United States
Our mission apostolate in the United States supports the initial and ongoing education and formation of our Society members and candidates for the missionary priesthood and Brotherhood; and shares our Church’s mission and God’s Good News of the Gospel with U.S. Catholics nationally.
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Amanecer Street Children

Amanecer ("daybreak" in Spanish) represents a new start for families in Bolivia. At six shelters aiding more than 600 needy people, Amanecer is achieving its goal by offering healthcare, rehabilitation, education and vocational training to boys, girls, adolescents and homeless women, many of whom have been abandoned and mistreated.

We continue to strive to find new ways to help in our children’s personal and physical development, to aid adolescents to become functioning members of our society and to help our families function better.

With the help of our benefactors, we have been able to continue to provide aid for educators, food, medical expenses and much needed repairs in our shelters.

Your generous gift to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers will be designated for this or similar mission programs.

Education and Nutrition

The Nyaungdon Boarding House in the Dala slums of Yangon welcomes children at risk. Activities focus on helping the children improve their reading, writing and speaking skills in English, and implementing activities to stimulate mental and physical growth.

Father James Kofski's project impacts more than 400 children from very poor families and distant villages where intermediate schools are not available. His project provides books, pencils, notebooks, school uniforms, umbrellas and raincoats to almost all the children. It allows at least 30 children to stay at a boarding house and continue to go to school. In addition, the funds often help to pay for children’s medical needs.

With the support of our benefactors, children who were once malnourished, sickly and frequently absent from school are now doing much better academically and they are in better health, allowing them to have a brighter future through education.

Your generous gift to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers will be designated for this or similar mission programs.

Public Health Program

With the help of our benefactors, we are responding to the community of the Mabatini Parish in Mwanza by addressing its public health concerns through workshops, seminars and training.

We work with the handicapped and we hold a prayer service on one Sunday each month for the community to become familiar with our work.

Your gift enables us to provide 10 wheelchairs and more than 400 patients with eye examinations. Many people receive treatment that includes medicine and referrals. Thanks to you, 15 surgeries have been performed.

We established a garden that grows plants and trees that are used for natural medicines to treat various ailments such as fungus, malaria and malnutrition. We look forward to the addition of a dental clinic along with tools for diabetes screening.

Your generous gift to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers will be designated for this or similar mission programs.

School Tutoring

The children from Southern Cochabamba, Bolivia, live in extreme poverty. Our School Tutoring Program provides a solid foundation to improve their skills in Spanish as well as a daily meal and an after school tutoring program for over 170 abandoned and “at risk” children. Our children are also introduced to theater, ecology, computers along with the basics of reading, writing and mathematics.

We now have three schools, Nueva Vera Cruz, Costanera, and Alto Monte Rancho. All three are in the poorest areas of Cochabamba that have heavy migration by the Native Americans, mostly Quechua, from the rural areas. The children are taught in Spanish, which is not their native language, as they strive to know how to learn in their new world

With your help, we have an opportunity to learn about the culture of the poor, teaching parenting skills to the parents and interacting with the kids, their homes, their school and their farms. This vital program ensures that the children receive the education and nutritional support that they need.

This project has been funded by a generous benefactor in 2014 but we invite you to support a similar project.

Your generous gift to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers will be designated for this or similar mission programs.

Pastoral Counseling

Guayabo, one of the poorest districts in metropolitan Lima, is home to 12,500 people, mostly Andean migrants who come to the city in search of a better life.

Father Kyungsu Son, M.M. hopes to take advantage of the unique strengths of his pastoral role for entering people's lives through the counseling ministry in a hospital and with prisoners. He ministers to the prisoners and their family members of the San Jorge Prison in downtown Lima, visiting inmates in their cells and spending time with their families on visiting days in the prison.

He and his pastoral team have begun a free massage service that helps to relieve stress of prisoners, provided by blind masseurs (Training Workshop in Massage Therapy for the Blind). The blind masseurs received heart-felt gratitude from the 650 prisoners; and with the approval of the prison warden, they will be welcomed back to offer more massage therapy.

Your generous gift to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers will be designated for this or similar mission programs.

Youth with Disabilities

Maryknoll continues to partner with the Morning Star Center for Early Detection, Intervention and Care for Children with Mental Disabilities in Hanoi. With a capacity to serve 220 children, our center provides diagnostic services, counseling and training for parents and caregivers; pre-education for mainstream children in regular schools; and life skills education and vocational training. Two-thirds of the children are autistic. Others have Down’s Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy and other mental disorders.

During 2013, the project offered in-house staff training sessions for 70 center teachers and other personnel. We provided tuition subsidies for children from poor families; teaching equipment and supplies; special educational activities for the children; and vocational training for older children. Our goal is for the children to become better able to lead normal lives and to become integrated into the lives of their families and communities. We also want children from needy families to access the center's programs; and we provide for continued improvement in the capacity of center teachers and medical staff to work with these disabled children.

Your generous gift to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers will be designated for this or similar mission programs.

Seedling of Hope Youth

Our Seedling of Hope Youth Project improves the quality of life of the orphaned and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS and it mitigates the impact of HIV/AIDS on their lives.

During 2013, Maryknoll provided food, security, education, and medical and psychosocial support for more than 500 orphans and vulnerable children. Most of the children live with a remaining parent who is HIV+ or with an extended family member such as a grandmother. Fifty children live in four Maryknoll sponsored group homes, foster homes or transitional homes leading to independent living for youth. Many of the children are enrolled in school; and the majority of the children are in grades 7-9. In addition, 158 newly delivered HIV+ women and their babies benefit from the Prevention of Parent to Child Transmission component of the project.

With the support of our benefactors, our Seedling of Hope Youth Project has saved many children from a life on the streets. We continually strive to improve the lives of children and youth orphaned and vulnerable due to HIV/AIDS.

Your generous gift to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers will be designated for this or similar mission programs.

Hansen’s Disease Program (Leprosy)

Hansen’s Disease (leprosy) continues to be a concern and is part of mainland China's great poverty in rural areas. Fr. Thomas Peyton offers help to persons with Hansen’s Disease and to those suffering from AIDS when government assistance is incomplete or lacking all together. Their program of compassion offers food and medical care to ease the burden of illness on patients and their families.

In 2012, the focus was on the tuition for lepers’ children in schools as well as for food and medicine. This vital program with the help of our benefactors aids 5,000 victims of Hansen’s Disease and includes 16 centers, a mobile eye clinic, and a training center and dormitory (for children of lepers going to school).

Your generous gift to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers will be designated for this or similar mission programs.

Public Health Program at Mabatini Parish

With the help of our benefactors, we are responding to community of the Mabatini Parish in Mwanza by addressing its public health concerns through workshops, seminars and the training. The workers will help repair club-foot deformities and teach parents of handicapped children how to administer the exercises needed for treatment.

With your support, we have established a garden that grows plants and trees that are used for natural medicines that treat various ailments such as fungus, malaria and malnutrition.

Ongoing improvements in mobility and education among the handicapped continue as well as the referral of individuals that have require medical attention such as cleft-lip and palate surgeries. Natural medicines have made distribution possible as well as affordable. With the help of our benefactors, many have received cataract surgeries and have received eye examinations as well as eye glasses at an affordable price.

Your generous gift to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers will be designated for this or similar mission programs.

Education and Training of Street Children

Since 1996, Maryknoll Missioner, Fr. Tom O'Brien has worked informally with street children in Hanoi, spending time on the streets getting to know them, developing friendships and trust, and providing assistance for education, training, income-generation, and medical and family assistance in response to their expressed needs. With the support of our benefactors, we are able to assist children with continuing their education while providing vocational skills training and/or income-generating assistance to older children as well as emergency medical assistance to families, and sometimes to assist children and their families to secure residence certificates and/or birth certificates.

In 2012, a total of 26 children and youth received assistance. Of these, eleven children were assisted to continue primary school, nine for high school, four to receive child care while their mothers worked, and two families were assisted with medical care.

Your generous gift to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers will be designated for this or similar mission programs.

Catholic Youth Formation

The Catholic Youth Formation Program of Mombasa, Kenya provides hope and a brighter future for youth covering all age groups, from the very young to the young adults up to age 31. The program focuses on building a sense of trust in an unsettled State and Church in Kenya. With the support of our benefactors, the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers are able to continue this vital program while helping the youth realize their goals and dreams of a promising future.

Your generous gift to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers will be designated for this or similar mission programs.

The Leadership and Formation Training Program

The Leadership Training Program is directed towards the ongoing process of forming leaders in the parish within the different pastoral ministries: Evangelization, Catechesis, Youth, Liturgy, Human Development, Social Justice, The School of Faith and Life and the formation of a team that carries out the School of Faith and Life.

Ongoing catechetic courses as well as programs that support animation of the parish communities as well programs that foster justice and peace support the future of mission in San Pedro Sula. The Literacy school, for example, continues to serve over 600 people in primary and second education.

Your generous gift to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers will be designated for this or similar mission programs.

School Tutoring Program

The children from Southern Cochabamba, Bolivia live in extreme poverty. The School Tutoring Program provides a solid foundation to improve their skills in Spanish and provides a daily meal and an after school tutoring program for over 100 abandoned and “at risk” children The children are also introduced to theater, ecology, computing as well as the basics of reading, writing and mathematics.

With the help of our benefactors, this vital program enables children to advance to the next grade level, increase their test scores, and receive a healthy daily meal.

Of these 100 children, several moved on in mid-year because of their advanced studies and some left the program because of their need to help their families in the fields or work. These children were quickly replaced by others who were having trouble with their studies. All but one child who arrived one month before school closed passed the grade.

Your generous gift to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers will be designated for this or similar mission programs.

Food Program

This program, led by Fr. Joseph Fedora, M.M., provides food to 20 severely malnourished inmates in Peru's most overcrowded prison. Most prisoners are HIV+ so good nutrition is essential to their treatment and survival. Your gift will make sure that inmates receive the food they need.

The purpose of the program is to provide food (breakfast and lunch) to 20 undernourished prisoners living with HIV/AIDS. Most of these prisoners are receiving retroviral drugs. Good nutrition is a vital partner with antiretroviral therapy. Even though the State feeds its prison population, the amount and quality of the food is substandard, especially for those with compromised immune systems. The prison population at San Pedro de Lurigancho prison (South America's largest) is 10,000. About 150 prisoners have been diagnosed with HIV; half are on antiretroviral treatment. Most are still asymptomatic, but many are in advanced stages of the disease. There's a waiting list; when a prisoner reaches a certain weight he has to leave the program and is immediately replaced by another.

The success of antiretroviral treatment requires good nutrition. Twenty HIV-positive prisoners out of more than 150 inmates living with the virus are thriving because of this program. Your gift continues to make a difference!

Your generous gift to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers will be designated for this or similar mission programs.

AIDS Relief

This home-based program of medical staff volunteers provides free healthcare to HIV-infected persons and those who are sick with AIDS. This effort, lead by Fr. Lance Nadeau, M.M., reaches patients in 10 parishes in the Archdiocese of Mombasa where there are 4,000 people living with HIV and AIDS, and about 2,000 who are very sick with AIDS. Your gift will make a great difference!

Your generous gift to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers will be designated for this or similar mission programs.

Shelter for Families

Through the generosity of our benefactors, the AIDS shelter continues to count on the support of two nurses aids who attend the mothers living with HIV and their children. This enables us to achieve the goal of providing a better quality of life for people living with HIV by accompanying the women and children at doctor appointments and treatment control, aiding the other medical professionals in monitoring treatment and care, providing good medical treatment and nutrition for woman and children with HIV, and providing a safe home environment.

There are currently 6 women and 10 children living at the Shelter. In addition, around 20 "outpatients" enjoy 3-meals a day, 7 days a week. Throughout the year, mothers and children who travel to Lima for health care are given room and board during their stay.

Your generous gift to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers will be designated for this or similar mission programs.